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Good news.....when can we make the walkways over Mounts Bay Rd NO SMOKING ZONES too?The cigarette butts thrown on the walkway are a disgrace! Smokers, you have brought these bans on yourselves. If you had some respect for public places and disposed of your rubbish appropriately you might not be in this predicament!

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DanielWa

Date and time

January 30, 2013, 8:35AM

Cant wait to see what % of people want smoking totally banned and what combined % would like to see it banned in the malls. The majority of "No" voters are obviously the smokers right? They don't seem to care that their stinky habit might actually give someone else cancer. I hate having to listen to someone else's music on the train (when their headphones are turned up super loud) but that PALES in comparison to having to breathe a carcinogen that someone else needs or likes! Make the stuff illegal - it is a poison - a poison that affects people that have chosen NOT to do it! If I decide to burn plastic in my back yard its illegal because of the toxic fumes,but its ok is someone else smokes. The other thing that really makes me dislike smokers is the fact that they wont stow their butts, put them in their own car ash tray, man-bag or hand-bag - no, they think its ok to just drop them on the ground or out the window. It is a foul habit that creates toxic fumes and litter and smoker's breath stinks.

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RCheck

Location

Perth

Date and time

January 30, 2013, 8:44AM

First comment is spot on. Smoking is a filthy and disgusting habit and most smokers seem to be a grubby bunch that see fit to drop their butts wherever they please. If I had my way I'd ban the habit completely and I'd feel good about doing it to. This decision can't come quickly enough.

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Aaron Peter

Date and time

January 30, 2013, 8:53AM

I think we're at the point now where we need to make the sale of tobacco illegal. It's time. Drug addiction is not in the interests of anyone. Let's make history.

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Peter

Location

Fremantle

Date and time

January 30, 2013, 9:08AM

Better to make all sales outlets pay a licence fee of $10000.00 thus reducing the number of outlets. Once you have stopped it's all too easy to go down to the garage at 8.00 PM and buy that packet.Or just pop down to the pub.

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The Gerrn Eye

Location

Rural WA

Date and time

January 30, 2013, 9:32AM

The Gerrn Eye in Rural WA - great idea, with the proceeds going to assist victims of passive smoking.

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Asthmatic

Date and time

January 30, 2013, 4:18PM

This is a great start to what I hope is a blanket ban on smoking in Western Australia. The people of Perth need to stand together and make history. Let's begin with a ban in the city then spread to the suburbs and ultimately get them off the shelves forever.

Other's see Perth as a town of slow progression, well let's jump ahead of the pack and make a name for ourselves as the Australian City with the cleanest air, cleanest public open spaces and healthiest citizens.

If Barnett takes up the challenge why not make this part of his Bigger Picture...

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Gen Y bother

Location

Perth

Date and time

January 30, 2013, 9:44AM

Smoking's a vile habit. Its wretched vestige lingers in the air and clings to the smoker who makes nostrils shrink when they sit next to a non-smoker on public transport.

'Nanny-state' and 'freedom' are the feeble vocal responses of these inconsiderate drug addicts. Helmet laws preserve brains too incredibly poor in judgment to safeguard themselves, so smoking bans to protect the rest of us from this noxious habit.

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Ex-Smoker

Location

Perth CBD

Date and time

January 30, 2013, 9:45AM

about time!!

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aa

Date and time

January 30, 2013, 9:52AM

But while we are at it, how about a total ban on drinking - another filthy habit/addiction that kills and costs big health dollars and is all about poison. In fact let's treat everyone who drinks like we treat smokers.